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Anna Jönsson

Started a topic Mon, 27 Oct, 2014 at 10:50 AM

Hi!

Several others have posted questions on this topic before, but the answers don't seem to help me. I've created drawings in Illustrator 5.5 with a line thickness of 1 px and on an 1500x1500 px artboard. All paths and nothing grouped. I save the SVG as shown in the attached file. When I import it to Videoscribe, the images are drawn with a thin line which as soon as the drawing is done gets a bit thicker. This looks kind of awful, and I don't know how to get the lines in the drawings to be of consistent thicknes throughout the animation. Please, help me to understand how to get rid of the shift in line thickness.

the thread you referred me too is dealing with intersecting lines appearing first. My problem is the sudden shift in thickness when the animation finishes. The lines suddenly get thicker as soon as the lines are done drawing.

There are no images to embed, only Illustrator paths.

What I need is for the lines at the end of the animation to maintain theirthickness that they have while the drawing animation is happening.

Any insight would be helpful.

Thanks.

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Brian Andersen

On Fri, 4 Sep, 2015 at 11:49 PM

Also, I'm loading multiple images into one scribe file. As soon as the first image is done drawing, it shrinks and movesout of the way of the second one for no reason whatsoever.The second image also imports with a huge bounding boxfor no apparent reason, even though the artboard in illustratorbarely exceeds the size of the drawings.

I've been at this an hour, trying to do relatively simple things...really trying to execute the basic functionality of the program, but it is so buggy and unwieldy as to be unuseable.

I will keep at it for a bit but I think I will soon be exploring after effects alternatives.I am on a deadline and don't have time for random size shifts and image moves that I didn't program.

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Mike Metcalf

On Sat, 5 Sep, 2015 at 12:05 AM

The thread at the link actually deals with 2 issues which both result from settings in CC. 1) new settings added in Creative cloud versions of illustrator cause the lines to draw even thinner than in previous versions and then thicken much more noticeably after the image is drawn (this may pertain to your problem).2) Intersections in the lines thicken before the rest of the lines.

If you are using CC then you may be able to greatly reduce the thickening issue by using the save settings shown in that thread.

Also, in that thread, Christopher H mentions that using one consistent line thickness for the whole scribe might make the thickening less noticeable or nonexistent. I have not personally confirmed that.

-Mike (videoscribe user)

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Brian Andersen

On Sat, 5 Sep, 2015 at 12:13 AM

Thanks Mike,

I was using different stroke sizes, I will try to redo in CS6 or change my CC settingsusing one stroke size and see how that works.

Can you give me any tips on why the files come in with unusuallylarge bounding boxes, or why they move around for no reasonafter the drawing animation completes?

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Mike Metcalf

On Sat, 5 Sep, 2015 at 4:07 AM

If you use only stroked paths and filled paths you should probably experience none of those problems.

Any fancy stuff like masks, glows or effects of any kind may have unexpected consequences. hidden layers and embedded images may still affect the bounding box and increase file size as well.

If you start with just the stroked and filled paths you can probably experiment a little bit with the fancy stuff to see what works and what causes problems.

-MIke (videoscribe user)

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Mike Metcalf

On Sat, 5 Sep, 2015 at 4:40 AM

I usually use different stroke sizes too so I'm not sure if using all one size helps.

Or maybe using just even numbers like 2pt 4pt 6pt... I haven't really experimented with different things.

-M (vu)

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Brian Andersen

On Mon, 14 Sep, 2015 at 3:03 AM

So I'm doing a scribe in CS6 using 1pt thickness throughout, and the problem persists.

I need a consistent line thickness from start to finish... this needs to be addressed before software is released,did this not come up in product testing?

Sorry to sound snarky, but I'm facing a project where I will be cranking out like thirty of these over a period of two weeks...which does not leave me much time to come up with fixes or alternates.

It's weird because I did another one earlier, in CS6 with different stroke sizes, and the problem is notthere at all. What is the trigger for this? Structurally the two files are almost exactly the same.

I need some consistency and predictability if this is going to work for me.

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried adjusting all my settings in Illustrator and Videoscribeas depicted in the picture above, yet the line thickness still shifts at the end.

Increasing stroke size mitigates the effect, but does not eliminate it.

For now I'm working on a workaround using either After Effects or FCP,where I will freeze the last frame after the drawing completes, but before the line thickness increase kicks in.

That should be a workable solution, but I would suggest trying to fix this for future versions. Also, I would love a 24fps export option. That is pretty standard here in the US, and I imagine you have a lotof users over here across the pond.

Thanks again,Brian

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Charles Wicks

On Mon, 14 Sep, 2015 at 8:57 PM

I have tried every method explained and it doesn't solve the problem. As a result I've given up trying to create whiteboard videos using only videoscribe.

Instead I just create single scenes and cut them together with after effects and premiere, and do all transitions within those applications. This is a major problem within videoscribe and needs to be fixed.

Charlie

Joe Clarke

On Tue, 15 Sep, 2015 at 10:07 AM
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Hi Chris and Bryan,

With the example SVG I attached do you get the issue when you import it?

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Brian Andersen

On Thu, 17 Sep, 2015 at 1:52 AM

Hi Joe,

I don't seem to be able to download it.

Oddly enough the assets provided by the client on my project only open in Illustrator CC,but they have slightly thicker lines and so far the problem is not apparent. Lucky!

However if it does show up again, I'll use my freeze frame fix in After Effects or FCP.

thanksBrian

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Brian Andersen

On Thu, 17 Sep, 2015 at 5:52 AM

Another issue I'm having now is that when I resize an object in videoscribe,

the resize doesn't stick. It just draws out the same size as it was on import.